Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Chapter 68 The Witch Lady and Her Brothers

 
One year ago. After the crusade against vampires, Antoinette ignored the officer's commendation and ran to every magician's door, looking for a way to save her brother.
But it was of no avail, no one could save a soul that had already passed away. In fact, Antoinette's qualifications had surpassed more than 90% of the magicians in the principality. Even she could not save Louis, so naturally other magicians could not do it either.

Cruel fate ensued, and the curse of Hades was imposed on Antoinette. Antoinette found that her recent memory was gradually becoming blurred and she could not remember what had happened recently.
Geniuses think differently, and perhaps it # Nоvеlight # was the despair of losing her last loved one that drove Antoinette almost paranoid. Antoinette came up with a strategy, a strategy that could win back Louis.
"Antoinette used the curse of Hades to create a new inherent magic, projecting the Louis depicted in her memory into the world, and forcibly fixing Louis' soul in his dead body. In other words, as long as the Louis in Antoinette's memory is still alive, Louis' soul will not be recovered by Hades, and his body will not rot."

"Can this kind of thing be done with magic?"
"It is indeed possible. In a sense, Louis is now almost immortal. Am I right, Louis?"
At some point, Louis came behind Abigail, his expression still very calm.

"I did try to commit suicide, but it didn't work. No matter how I tortured my body, it would recover intact the next day. My sister's inherent magic has a distance limit, and it will become ineffective if the distance is too far, but it still didn't help. The next day I was the same as before. My form was fixed in my sister's memory of me a year ago. A year ago I was still alive."
"Louis..."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to deceive you, but this is my only chance. I've always been aware that compared to my sister, I’m far less talented. Miss Angelica's assistance is my lifeline. During the few days we worked together, Miss Angelica led me along, and in just a few days I surpassed my research progress over the past ten months."

"So, what Louis is fighting against is not a curse, but..."
"Yes. I am not fighting against the curse that is plaguing my sister. I am fighting against the inherent magic that my sister has researched in a few days: the magic that forced me to stay in this world when I should have been dead."
“There’s no need to belittle yourself.”

Angelica, in a rare move, chose to comfort Louis.
"Antoinette is a genuine magical genius. Her talent has every chance of reaching my level."
Angelica's evaluation was not false at all. Antoinette's qualifications were enough to reach the realm of Extraordinary, but Angelica could not guarantee her luck. There were countless genius magicians in history, and what they lacked was not qualifications but luck. By the way, the youngest Extraordinary was "Purple", and there had been no Extraordinary for 600 years before "Purple".

Angelica really wanted to complain about how this color, which symbolizes old age, had only recently appeared as an immortal Beyonder, but this topic had nothing to do with the present, so she decided to put it aside for now.
"Antoinette used fixed magic to bind Louis to the form in his memory, and then fixed her own memory to the time when Louis was still alive, and kept Louis alive by deceiving herself. So as long as this inherent magic is still working, Louis will always survive. I have to say, Antoinette's idea is very interesting."
Angelica summarizes Antoinette's approach, but Abigail also sees the contradiction.
"Wait a minute, Sister Angelica. That means Louis and Miss Antoinette's inherent magic are inseparable. Once Miss Antoinette's inherent magic loses its effect, Louis will..."

"Yes, if my sister realizes that I am dead, I will naturally die. The reason why I can still stand here and talk to you is all thanks to my sister's inherent magic. My sister deliberately made me mistakenly believe that her brother is still alive, so that I can talk, eat, and sleep like a normal person."
Louis seemed to be narrating something that had nothing to do with him. Seeing Louis' calm attitude, even Abigail regained her composure.
"Louis believes that the dead should not continue to exist in the world in their current form?"

"How is that possible? I don't think the dead should be buried honestly. What's wrong with being alive? Besides, I was less than 15 years old when I died. I didn't even have a girlfriend."
"It's not okay for me to make up for your regret and become your girlfriend, okay?"
Angelica was the first to reject this possibility.

“I didn’t say that…”
"But everyone in their right mind would want a girlfriend as cute as me, right?"
"That's... not right. Girlfriends and the like are not the main point I want to talk about. Anyway, if I can stay in this world and continue to live with my sister, I'm willing to sell my soul."

If so, what is the reason why Louis is so obsessed with breaking the cycle that Antoinette created?
Louis himself knew very well that Antoinette's awakening from the dream would mean his death.
This would be a real death, Angelica would cure Antoinette's curse, so Antoinette would not be able to save Louis even if she used her inherent magic.

Angelica broke the dull atmosphere and told Abigail the answer.
"——Antoinette's time is still running out, Abigail."
“…”

Living in Antoinette's false memories, Louise has gained a nearly eternal life. Louise will not die, and each day will be reset with Antoinette's memory of living on the same day; Louise will not age, and the Louise in Antoinette's memory will always be young, and they will always live in the summer before Antoinette entered school.
"Miss Angelica is right. Time is still passing for my sister on the hospital bed. She lived a year ago, but she has grown a year older. She can only confirm this through her notes. I think it is very cruel to her. When you wake up, you still remember your youth, but when you open your eyes, you find that you are already an old woman. Only after reading the diary do you realize that you have spent most of your life in the nursing home."
This was the only thing Louis couldn't accept.

Antoinette will spend the rest of her life in a hospital bed, her memory constantly being reset and her body continuing to age.
"My sister should have been prepared when she used her inherent magic. She was going to use her future life in exchange for the last moments of my already dead brother. My sister may have always thought that I was a good child, but this is the only and last time I will rebel against her... I want to break my sister's reincarnation, even if I die as a result."